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Three decades before his election as the first president of the United States in 1789, George Washington commanded soldiers ...
Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...
Before he led a revolution, George Washington sparked one. This video explores how a young officer’s ambush in the Ohio Valley helped ignite a global conflict—the Seven Years' War. Known in North ...
Even before George Washington became America’s first president, his experiences as a young colonel in western Pennsylvania ...
To the future President’s credit, Arkeonews wrote that “Washington, realizing the error, risked his life by galloping through ...
As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping archaeologists excavate the location.
History | October 2019. When Young George Washington Started a War. A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War ...
The French and Indian War Foundation and the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society hosted the event. Historian Carl Ekberg talked about George Washington's ties to Winchester, Virginia ...
At Fort Ligonier on Friday, excitement was in the air as it unveiled a new exhibit and talked about the ongoing archaeological work surrounding what is called George Washington's "friendly fire ...
Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...
In this first episode, Richard and I consider the leadership lessons learned by Washington in his colonial and frontier period and how his failures during the French and Indian War influenced his ...
The French and Indian War was, in a nutshell, a territorial tug-of-war for control of the Ohio Valley. And unfortunately, for the Native Americans living there, they were caught in the middle of ...